The Hungarian government and the Budapest city council will complete Budapest's e-ticket system jointly by 2021, Mayor Istvan Tarlos told commercial television. The project has not collapsed but will "probably" be taken over from the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK), Tarlos said. On Friday, Tarlos told the press that the municipal council's contract with the EBRD remains in force and the project to set up an automated fare collection system will continue. Earlier in the day, he initiated firing BKK managing director Kalman Daboczi because of the e-ticketing project. According to an agreement with Innovation and Technology Minister Laszlo Palkovics and Interior Minister Sandor Pinter, the city's e-ticket system will be coupled with the national system, Tarlos said on ATV.